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And, as your grandmother used to say, 'behave as well as you look." Meg wore a white dress with blue sash and hair-ribbons, and Dot was all in pink dress, ribbons and socks. "I hope," remarked Twaddles, as they started for Marion's house, "that the ice-cream will be chocolate."
"I say, Mops, you ought to have known better," was King's brotherly comment, but he pulled off her black hair-ribbons in the old, comforting way, and Midget grinned at him. "Let's dispense with these trappings of woe," said Cousin Jack, dropping the black ribbons in a convenient waste-basket.
The first day he came I was afraid they would be very shy of such a big strange man, and that he would extract nothing from them but tears; but the moment I left them alone together and as I shut the door, I heard them eagerly informing him, by way of opening the friendship, that their heads were washed every Saturday night, and that their hair-ribbons did not match because there had not been enough of the one sort to go round.
For it's a lovely, sunny, shiny day in May; And Cousin Jack is waiting here for you, So hurry up, and come along, you two!" Marjorie and Kitty could dress pretty quickly when they wanted to, so they were soon ready, and in fresh pink gingham dresses and pink hair-ribbons, they ran downstairs and out on to the lawn. King was already there, for Cousin Jack had roused him also.
Maynard's appearance was usually a signal for a grand rush, followed by a series of bear hugs and a general scramble, but to-night, owing to festive attire, the Maynard quartette were a little more demure. "Look out for my hair-ribbons, King!" cried Midget, for without such warning, hair-ribbons usually felt first the effects of the good-natured scrimmage. And then Mrs.
You just ought to see her shoe-polishing her rusty finger-tips. And she looks like she likes herself so much better when she has a new pair." "She shall have a boxful," Miss Drayton declared; "and the girls would they be allowed to wear red hair-ribbons and embroidered collars?" "Oh, please, Miss Drayton Aunt Sarah, I mean," said Anne, "don't let's send them a single useful thing.
Both girls wore their hair in a long loose braid, with a big ribbon at the top of the braid. "Didn't leave off hair-ribbons, did you?" said Dolly, smiling. "No, Mother wouldn't hear of it. She says we ought to wear them until we're sixteen, anyway." "I don't care much, do you?" "No; only I'd rather leave them off. It didn't rain, you see." "I should say not! It's a perfect day.
Little misses dressed in fine style, in dainty ruffled frocks and necklaces and bright hair-ribbons, tripped gracefully in and advanced to meet Mrs. Morris, quite like grown ladies in their manners. Behind them came several boys, spick and span in fresh white linen waists and silk neckties and well-fitting shoes.
Aldith MacCarthy learnt French from the same teacher that Meg was going to twice a week, and after an exchange of chocolates, hair-ribbons, and family confidences a friendship sprang up. Aldith had three grown-up sisters, whom she aped in everything, and was considerably wiser in the world than simple-minded, romantic Meg.
Couldn't she see what a forehead and eyes he had? And the mother, with one shade of scarlet and two of pink in her hair-ribbons, was rather proud of her son, but not satisfied. "Why didn't you graduate?" she queried as she poured the coffee at supper. "Because there were so many studies in the course which were a dead waste of time.
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